Yes, they don't actually glow in their own, but that's the type I mean...... The death stalker scorpion makes the top 10 most venomous creatures list, at #3
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I think I'm going to lay in bed watching movies today... the last few days have kicked my ....! Chaos at work with too many changes to product lines in just a few days, and me scrambling to keep up (marketing)... plus construction in my house (removing a fireplace, replacing walls and flooring after roof leak and water damage)... and the construction has stirred up the creepy crawlies - a spider bit me on the face the other day, I found a black widow in my kitchen window yesterday morning, then a scorpion decided to bum rush me in my bed last night. I didn't sleep worth a darn because I kept looking for scorpions.
Saw a pic of one of these last night (coconut crab - friggin' scary huge!) and I'm so glad we don't have them in Texas...
My scorpion looked like this and was just over 3 inches long (which is about the biggest I've ever seen around here)
You know what would happen to that crab here in southern Louisiana? I can see the crab pots boiling now lol
Speaking of creepy spiders... How about the banana spider? Used to see those in Okinawa....
they get petty big.... Spanning about 6". And yes, they are poisonous...
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We have those here, but mostly in the woods, not to much in the populated areas. Webbing is as strong as thread and I've seen them over 4", thankfully never been bitten by one.Speaking of creepy spiders... How about the banana spider? Used to see those in Okinawa....
they get petty big.... Spanning about 6". And yes, they are poisonous...
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From what I understand, there's no poison to kill them that wouldn't also be dangerous to people. I moved into an old farm house around 1982 that had a rock foundation, which apparently these scorpions like. There were tons of scorpions. Someone came in and sprayed malathion all around the foundation. I had no idea at the time how dangerous malathion is.Ultraviolet or black light, I bought a mega ultraviolet flashlight to search the house for more (and this one did glow under the light), didn't find any others. Bad thing is I own a pest control company, and this was IN MY HOUSE, wife was not happy to say the least.
I know it's dumb, but I am far more terrified of these little scorpions (basically harmless altho the sting would hurt) than I am of spiders. Except black widows.
I've always been one to pick spiders up and carry them outside, unless it's a black widow or brown recluse. Or wolf spider - not that I am very scared of them, but they would be hard to catch and likely to bite if I picked them up. And I know about spider bites - I've been bitten about 20 or so times in my life - twice by a brown recluse! Maybe that's why they don't scare me so much - and I've NEVER been stung by a scorpion. Devil you know and all that...
The official name for em here is Dirt Dobber. Saw one the other day that was flyin with a spider bigger than him but fell to the table and decided to leave the spider (already dead) ...must have been too heavy.
I've referred to them as Mud Dobbers. They fly funny when they are carrying a ball of mud back to the nest.
I'm the same way I remember being little at my Grandfather's farm in East Texas (near Franklin) and having to hit our shoes upside down every morning because of the scorpions.
And still have a healthy fear of old downed logs after I was bum rushed by a water mocassin near their lake.
I tried to catch a water moccasin one time...until my friend yelled for me to stop and called me an idiot. I didn't know it was the embodiment of evil that hates everything but then it tried to catch me. I do want to eat a rattlesnake and see how that is though.
Cottonmouths will come toward you but at the last minute will turn away. They try their best to avoid contact otherwise. This one is coiled and showin it's mouth as wide as possible in hopes of frightening the attacker away. You pretty much have to step on them or grab them to get them to strike and then it's not guaranteed. I have huge ones on my property large enough to grab birds from the air.I'm the same way I remember being little at my Grandfather's farm in East Texas (near Franklin) and having to hit our shoes upside down every morning because of the scorpions.
And still have a healthy fear of old downed logs after I was bum rushed by a water mocassin near their lake.
I don't like spiders and snakes, but that ain't what it takes to love me....
Snakes... yuck!
Proof that Texans are crazy... had a friend that had a few acres of peach trees and a nearby creek. At night, water moccasins would get up in the peach trees. He hated those snakes, so he would go out at night in his little tractor with a flashlight and a shotgun, ram the tree with the tractor, then shoot the snakes that fell out. I told him he'd stop doing that when one landed on him and bit him, but it never happened.
Proof that Texans are crazy... had a friend that had a few acres of peach trees and a nearby creek. At night, water moccasins would get up in the peach trees. He hated those snakes, so he would go out at night in his little tractor with a flashlight and a shotgun, ram the tree with the tractor, then shoot the snakes that fell out. I told him he'd stop doing that when one landed on him and bit him, but it never happened.
You are thinking of the Tasmanian Devil, those are kittens compared to the Honey Badger.
The best Honey Badger video...
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